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I'm not one to trumpet conspiracy theories, as most are factless speculations or bigoted fabrications. In this case a Physicist by the name of Steven E Jones, at BYU, has published a thorough document analysing the available information about the trade center collapses. A proper investigation starts with understanding exactly what happened. Then looks for those who had opportunity (access), the means to make it happen, and the motive -- as in qui bono (who benefits).

Some start with the motive, asking: Who is benefitting from the "War on Terror"? Benefit is an odd word to use regarding a war that has no forseeable end, but there are parties who benefit. A proper investigation whittles down the list of suspects who are then tracable to possible motives.

Another problem is, who's going to do the investigative work. The US Government has already produced the very investigation that doesn't stand up to reason. And that's where Jones, and others with his qualifications. Back in the day, FR was good at this sort of thing.

1 posted on 02/01/2006 8:42:16 PM PST by Anthem
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Not again!...


2 posted on 02/01/2006 8:44:02 PM PST by bnelson44 (Proud parent of a tanker! (Charlie Mike, son))
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blah blah blah blah blah

I've heard this crap a thousand times before.

Peddle it somewhere else.

3 posted on 02/01/2006 8:44:12 PM PST by dirtboy (My new years resolution is to quit using taglines...)
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the three destroyed New York City buildings were brought down that day by controlled demolition rather than structural failure.

Rubbish. Utter rubbish.

5 posted on 02/01/2006 8:46:24 PM PST by Howlin (Why don't you just report the news, instead of what might be the news? - Donald Rumsfeld 1/25/2006)
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IBTZ


6 posted on 02/01/2006 8:46:50 PM PST by Blackirish (No Tagline today)
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This is BULLSH*T
7 posted on 02/01/2006 8:47:18 PM PST by COEXERJ145 (Despite Popular Opinion, Tom Tancredo Does Not Support Deporting Illegal Aliens.)
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I'm not one to trumpet conspiracy theories

Sure you are.

Back in the day, FR was good at this sort of thing.

Ah, yes, the good old days of Michael Rivero.

9 posted on 02/01/2006 8:47:37 PM PST by Howlin (Why don't you just report the news, instead of what might be the news? - Donald Rumsfeld 1/25/2006)
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Crackpot stuff.


12 posted on 02/01/2006 8:48:57 PM PST by onyx
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I thought it was Mayor Nagin's fault.


15 posted on 02/01/2006 8:50:29 PM PST by neodad (Rock Chock Seahawks)
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Steven E Jones is a nuclear physicist. What does he know about structural engineering? You don't have to heat steel to the melting point, for example, for it to bend or break. All of this has been debunked over and over and over again.

Sorry it is very old news.
18 posted on 02/01/2006 8:51:39 PM PST by bnelson44 (Proud parent of a tanker! (Charlie Mike, son))
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I was 8 years old when President John Kennedy was shot to death in Dallas in 1963. If grace favors me, I'll be 62 when documents related to the assassination are released to the public, and 84 when the Warren Commission's investigative files into the tragedy are finally opened

This dude really needs to find a life

22 posted on 02/01/2006 8:52:50 PM PST by Mo1 (Republicans protect Americans from Terrorists.. Democrats protect Terrorists from Americans)
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Why did all three buildings collapse largely into their own footprints -- in the style of a controlled demolition?

Hey, guess what . . . believe it or not, that's exactly how tall buildings collapse -- controlled demolition or not.

25 posted on 02/01/2006 8:53:32 PM PST by Alberta's Child (Leave a message with the rain . . . you can find me where the wind blows.)
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"But there cannot be genuine resolution as long as such critical information remains concealed."

We saw the 'critical' information. Case solved.


26 posted on 02/01/2006 8:53:38 PM PST by gate2wire
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There are a couple of legitimate questions here. For example, I've long suspected that the design of the buildings was one of the contributing factors in their collapse. The external lattice frame that was used in their construction was an innovative design element back then, and I suspect the buildings would have stood a much better chance of surviving the impact and fire if they were constructed with a standard internal column/beam frame.


28 posted on 02/01/2006 8:56:14 PM PST by Alberta's Child (Leave a message with the rain . . . you can find me where the wind blows.)
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There's no investigation since the root cause of 9/11 is because of Clinton's inaction against terrorism suring his administration.

All this other planned demolishing nonesense is just that.


30 posted on 02/01/2006 8:56:39 PM PST by Incorrigible (If I lead, follow me; If I pause, push me; If I retreat, kill me.)
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Back in the day, FR was good at this sort of thing.

Back in the day, Michael Rivero was a regular poster on FreeRepublic.

When he turned into a jew hating kook, he was banned.  He's still out there if you want to find out what really happened.

 

38 posted on 02/01/2006 9:01:51 PM PST by Incorrigible (If I lead, follow me; If I pause, push me; If I retreat, kill me.)
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This author writes for Common Dreams, a commie web site. 'nuff said. It's crapola.


41 posted on 02/01/2006 9:02:36 PM PST by jdm (All Your Base, House, Senate, WH, Judicial Belong to Us)
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• How did a fire fed by jet fuel, which at most burns at 1,700 degrees Fahrenheit, cause the collapse of the Twin Towers, built of steel that melts at 2,800 degrees? (Most experts agree that the impact of airliners, made mostly of lightweight aluminum, should not have been enough alone to cause structural failure.) How could a single planeload of burning jet fuel -- most of which flared off in the initial fireball -- cause the South World Trade Center tower to collapse in just 56 minutes?

Jet fuel burns at 2,200 degrees and it was not all destroyed in the fireball. The South Tower fell first because the impact of the United 767-200 was lower, (thus putting more weight on the damaged sections) hit at a much higher speed, and hit at an angle rather than head on like the American 767-200ER did the North Tower.

• Why did building WTC-7 fall, though no aircraft struck it? Fire alone had never before caused a steel skyscraper to collapse.

There was a show on the History Channel that explained this in great detail. IIRC, WTC-7 had a unique structural design due to the fact it was sitting atop a Con-Ed substation and all it took was for a few steel beams to become week and it went BOOM.

• Why did all three buildings collapse largely into their own footprints -- in the style of a controlled demolition?

Many large buildings are designed so that when the time come for them to be destroyed, they will fall into themselves.

• Why did no U.S. military jet intercept the wayward aircraft?

They tried. We don't have aircraft that are capable of hypersonic flight just yet. It takes time to fuel, arm, takeoff and fly to the target. Had Flight 93 not crashed, armed F-16's were on course to intercept and destroy it if necessary.

• Why has there been no investigation of BBC reports that five of the alleged 9/11 hijackers were alive and accounted for after the event?

Simply put, because the BBC is full of crap and you're full of crap for believing this dribble.

42 posted on 02/01/2006 9:02:58 PM PST by COEXERJ145 (Despite Popular Opinion, Tom Tancredo Does Not Support Deporting Illegal Aliens.)
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This guy just more or less published the agenda of the 9/11 group we had a thread on, yesterday or the day before. It's rubbish.

They really hope to play to the ignorance of people. Not hot enough to melt steel... pffft. Doesn't need to melt.
44 posted on 02/01/2006 9:03:16 PM PST by kenth
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That's a long time to wait for a chance to evaluate the purported truth.
This train came off the tracks in the second paragraph; so successful have the charlatans in the conspiracy industry been in propagating a nearly complete ignorance of the well-known facts ...
45 posted on 02/01/2006 9:03:44 PM PST by _Jim
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Did you go to the website and look at the credentials of these "experts"?

A physicist, an economist, a professor of philosophy, a "conspiracist", and Wayne Madsen, who writes paranoid stuff for Daily Kos and prisonplanet.com. Madsen recently wrote an article stating that his "sources" in the Vatican told him that John Paul II thought George W. Bush might be the anti-Christ.

These people are much like the goofballs who thought a team of Arabs brought down the Murrah Building in Oklahoma City.

People of all stripes and education can be conspirazoids. They will not accept the "official" version of anything, no matter how well documented or researched, and no matter how many structural engineers say the same thing about how, for instance, a building can fall when a large aircraft filled with jet fuel damages the inner core.

Ignore these people. The last thing we need is to feed the nuttiness of somebody like Alex Jones.

47 posted on 02/01/2006 9:05:11 PM PST by sinkspur (Trust, but vilify.)
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